Sat.Dec 13, 2008 - Fri.Dec 19, 2008

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Brands that Tweet

Buzz Marketing for Technology

There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not brands should be on Twitter. Quite frankly I really enjoy and appreciate some of the brands that I follow on Twitter because they give me news about their brand without me having to go find it. If you are thinking about whether your brand should be on Twitter - Here is just some of the discussions occurring about branding with Twitter BusinessWeek piece on Brands that Tweet Do brands belong on Twitter?

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Don't Stop B2B Marketing During The Holidays

Smashmouth Marketing

As regular as Halloween and football, this time of year Green Leads usually hears the following questions from both new and existing clients. "Why should we do appointment setting during the holiday months? Plus it's Q4, who has time for introductory appointments anyway?" Here are some points to ponder and they are relevant to all marketing programs, not just to appointment setting.

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Share your marketing 'wisdom' with Sherpa readers worldwide

markempa

I wanted to be sure to let you know that MarketingSherpa is gathering content for its seventh annual “wisdom report.” It’s a great opportunity for you to share your top 2008 story – and get back lessons learned from colleagues worldwide. “Marketing Wisdom from the Field Report” will be published in January and distributed free to all MarketingSherpa readers.

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How Marketers Can Help Salespeople Succeed with Large Companies

WriteSpark

WriteSpark Tech Marcom Insights. Ideas and Resources for Technology Marketing Communications and Public Relations from Janice King, freelance high tech copywriter and author, Copywriting That Sells High Tech. Home. Case Studies. Content Marketing. Sales Materials. Social Media. White Papers. Working with Writers. « Conference Focuses on Making the Most of Customer References | Main. | B2B Tech Buyers Like Social Media » How Marketers Can Help Salespeople Succeed with Large Companies.

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WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook 2024

Elevate your webinar game with WorkCast's Ultimate Webinar Handbook! Packed with insights from our seasoned webinar experts, this comprehensive guide is your go-to resource for mastering the art of B2B webinars. Learn the fundamentals, from defining webinars to exploring their benefits and diverse use cases. Discover the key elements of running a successful webinar, avoiding common mistakes, and making your sessions more engaging.

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Enable Sales & Marketing with Buyer Persona Scenarios

Tony Zambito

In our new dynamic world, where nothing stays the same for any long periods of time, the difference competitively may be in the ability to anticipate.   Many successful corporations have stayed ahead of the pack due to their ability to read the market and anticipate how their customers will behave.   In sports, accuracy is tied to anticipation.   For example, an All-Pro quarterback is often touted for his pinpoint accuracy.   However when you review films of his throws, y

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Can a social media strategy boost your lead generation efforts?

markempa

Yes! I came across a blog this weekend that reinforced my thoughts. This post, written by Christian Fea , CEO of Synertegic, Inc., started off with a this statistic that he found on compete.com: Twitter had around 3 million people visiting the site in 2008, and it grew 640% between November 2007 and November 2008. Ok, so how do we harness all of social media’s potential and use it to build a lead generation system?

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How to Prevent List Attrition yet Drive Event Attendance

Anything Goes Marketing

This week's blog post was inspired by an idea by Yaro Starak over at Entrepreneurs-journey.com who suggested to look for blog ideas by scanning Facebook groups. I decided to do a quick scan on Linkedin instead and found a great topic on email marketing. Here is the question that was asked: How does your company email customers about events and web seminars without sending too many emails to the same customer that may share several products within a product line?

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The Best of B2B Search Marketing 2008

Proteus B2B Marketing

Articles and blog postings on B2B search marketing are often hard to find. At Search Engine Land, we’re fortunate to have a stable of experts who regularly contribute great content and make the Strictly Business column a success. But during the year, I’ve found a lot of other great content, too. I chose 30 of [.]. Tags: B2B Search Marketing b2b search engine marketing b2b seo.

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10 Opinions - Business or Personal in Social Media?

Smashmouth Marketing

There is the business me, and there is the personal me and always the two have mixed. It's obvious by the two feeds you see on the right. I post both topics here on my blog and I believe that the coexistence of business and personal identities given today's social media is the way to go. We are all connected one way or another. We tell personal stories when we meet someone at a networking event and we tell business stories to our friends.

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The Top 3 Tips for Writing Successful White Papers

In the B2B marketing toolkit, white papers can be a powerful option for reaching decision-makers and experts, presenting them with interesting information that improves their perception of your organization's competence and thought leadership. That said, a poorly executed whitepaper will not only be unable to influence your desired audience but will also come with significant costs that other assets won't incur.

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B2B Marketing Testing to Optimize Lead Generation Results

markempa

Discovering and knowing what really works and what doesn’t for lead generation is essential for every marketer. The best way to discover this is through the process of testing. Personally, I’ve met only a handful of B2B marketers who are consistently testing their offers to optimize them and generate leads more effectively. I think this is due to two things: the first is time (because marketers want to get their campaigns out there), and the second is knowledge of testing methods.

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B2B Marketing Lead Generation: Thought Leadership with Amy Hawthorne

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Amy Hawthorne, Director of Marketing at B2B lead generation company ReachForce , and frequent contributor to the B2BLead blog. As a long time B2B marketer, Amy is continuously looking for new ways to help companies build their sales pipeline with targeted lead generation initiatives. 1.

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Words May Reposition a Brand. But They Must Also Define the Task.

Proteus B2B Marketing

We who’ve been in the marketing communications business for years have certainly been exposed to a myriad of brand repositionings in our professional careers…and most likely participated in more than a few as well. Some simple and easy, some incredibly complex, but all with the intention of moving the perception of the brand closer to [.]. Tags: Positioning customer service employee engagement internal alignment.

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Chris Brogan: "Empower the Users" (Prospects)

Smashmouth Marketing

Chris Brogan 's recent blog post, Your Lead Generation Methods Have to Change hits on a topic that we all need to be reminded of: The new lead generation shifts your methods as a marketer from “talk about your dumb product” into “empower the users.” (That, by the way is the nugget of this whole piece.) The lead process used to be “beat people with information until your sales person closes them.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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Getting More Out of Each Click, Part 2: Docmetrics

WebMarketCentral

It's a widespread and persistent quandary for marketers, particularly B2B marketers who use white papers as a lead generation incentive for response : on the one hand, if you place a contact form in front of your content, you'll get a very low conversion rate (on average, 95% of visitors will simply leave the site, and one-third of those who remain will enter bogus information).

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Nurturing Sales Leads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

If you ask most executives to describe where revenue comes from in their organization, they'll usually talk about the "sales cycle" or "sales funnel". But as we all now know, the ways buyers research and purchase B2B solutions has been transformed by search and social media. Today, companies can start building a relationship with potential buyers long before they want to speak with sales.

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Simplifying Demand Generation Usability Assessment: No Obvious Answers

Customer Experience Matrix

My feelings are hurt, people. No one has commented on last week’s post about usability measurement. I know it’s not the world’s most fascinating topic but I really wanted some feedback. And I do, after all, know how many people visit the site each day. Based on those numbers, there are a lot of you who have chosen not to help me. Oh well, no grudges here -- ‘tis the season and all that.

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Alton Brown's Green Holiday Fruit Cake - Good Eats

Smashmouth Marketing

I just made Alton Brown's Fruit Cake recipe again. All organic, btw. I've done this for several years and not only is it incredibly good, the apricot brandy I spray on it brings extra holiday cheers. Ok, so the brandy wasn't organic and was shipped from somewhere far away, but you can't green everything. Seriously, this is NOT the fruit cake you know with the artificial colored fruit bits in it.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Best of 2008 (So Far) - Website Design, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

What are the most important factors to consider when designing (or redesigning) a website? Where should you start? How can you ensure that your site works well on mobile devices as well as conventional browsers? Which tools can help make your efforts more productive and effective? Get the answers to these questions and more in the pieces below, some of the best articles and blog posts from the past year.

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Sales 2.0 - Call for Beta Testers

Smashmouth Marketing

This is shameful self promotion, but there is value in it to the readers, so I figured it passed the litmus test enough for me to write about it. Ok, it's meetings 2.0™. Green Leads is introducing a new product/service next year and are trying to test it with a small group of sales and/or marketing folks. The service is a Sales 2.0 creation (sales enablement using technology and out of the box thinking) and is based around appointment setting, but is geared towards two targets that previously we

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Pam O'Neal on How Companies of All Sizes Can Start a Social Media Marketing Program

Smashmouth Marketing

Pam O'neal and I have had the pleasure of talking recently as I was advising the micro lending sotry/non-profit One Hen on the virtues of SEO and Social Media. I had seen Pam's story on Marketing Sherpa and thought she would be a great person for them to meet and having been following Pam on twitter, I tweeted her up and made the connect. The conversation was extrememly informative, not just for One Hen, but for myself as well.

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A Modest Proposal for Demand Generation Usability Measurement

Customer Experience Matrix

As Tuesday’s post suggested, my thoughts on usability measurement have now crystallized. To provide a meaningful and consistent comparison of usability across demand generation vendors, you could: 1. Define a set of business scenarios that must be supported by the system. Each scenario would describe a type of marketing campaign and the system tasks required to run it.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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WMC Interviews: Anne Holland

WebMarketCentral

Over the past three years, I've had the honor of interviewing many brilliant marketers, including Laura Ries , bestselling author , blogger and TV personality ; Mike Schultz , president of the Wellesley Hiils Group ; and Janine Popick , co-founder and CEO of hosted email marketing platform VerticalResponse. But last week, I had the unique pleasure of corresponding with Anne Holland, founder of MarketingSherpa and legendary marketing guruess.

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7 More Things Few People Know Anout Me (and even fewer care)

WebMarketCentral

Paul Jahn over at the LocalMN Blog has tagged me, along with a few other people I need to get to know, in the spirit of the holidays, to write seven things that most people don't know about me. So here goes: 1. I've coached youth sports for six years—four years of baseball, two of soccer. I s*ck as a soccer coach, but the kids had fun which is all that matters. 2.

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